Displaying 91 To 102 Of 102 Comments 7 Tips For Customers And Theme Authors Given configuration hell perhaps theme designers should include screenshot of the configuration panel also? » Posted By Andreas Nurbo On August 11, 2009 @ 5:30 AM Top 5 WordPress Security Tips You Most Likely Don’t Follow I follow some of those tips. and some others as well. » Posted By Andreas Nurbo On August 9, 2009 @ 5:21 PM What Exactly Is The Carrington Framework? From my short venture into it I’d say its overly complicated and a little messy. » Posted By Andreas Nurbo On August 3, 2009 @ 3:50 PM Listener Poll: Should there be a page on the plugin repository for Commercial GPL plugins? The question and the third answer doesn’t really have anything to do with eachother. » Posted By Andreas Nurbo On July 5, 2009 @ 1:59 PM GPL, Theme Critique, WP Showcase, Interview Questions He really ain’t the only one with a domain and such ;) I just don’t want to make anything public of it yet. It avoids curiosity signups. » Posted By Andreas Nurbo On June 22, 2009 @ 4:12 PM State Of The Word From San Francisco Found it very interesting and illuminating. Especially given the whole monetization debate that’s been going on. » Posted By Andreas Nurbo On June 21, 2009 @ 9:36 AM What Can You Do With WordPress MU? You can create a completely automated blognetwork also and make money from ads and affiliate offers. Thats what I did lol. I even had an updated magazine like frontpage with latest posts in different categories. Featured posts and everything. Biggest benefit I think though is the ease of making niched blognetworks. » Posted By Andreas Nurbo On June 17, 2009 @ 7:32 PM Cashing In On WordPress Plugin Development I don’t think donations will ever pay for the development and support costs of a plugin, period. There is just one simple idea to making money. » Posted By Andreas Nurbo On June 17, 2009 @ 7:38 PM Working Hard Behind The Scenes Looking forward to the post. Never been to one myself. » Posted By Andreas Nurbo On June 10, 2009 @ 5:25 PM Is WordPress Information Too Fragmented? I sure could have used a centralized place to find info. I got inspired by what you wrote and been thinking on how to get something similar to that working. Perhaps will be the project in my series on automatic blogging. The original idea was boring. When it comes to learning how to develop plugins for WordPress I think most of the resources are not that good. The codex is a little confusing, its hard to find step-by-step tutorials beyond the basics. Often the blogs keep it at a very simple level at least for me. And most plugins are very badly written. (not that my newly released beta plugin is a masterpiece, will probably be refactored a little for next version) Got some ideas on the teaching department also in my notes. Don’t know if there is much need for it though. From what I understand people find the admin menu hard and also the TinyMCE interface. Made some codegenerators for my personal C# and .Net stuff might do some similar stuff for WordPress. Andreas Nurbo’s last blog post..GWO plugin for WordPress: beta version released » Posted By Andreas Nurbo On June 3, 2009 @ 5:11 PM @Chip Bennett - First, define “useless”. A theme will still render just fine (as in, without errors) without either the CSS file(s) or image file(s). For a plethora of evidence, see “CSS Naked Day”. Of course it can render I’m not an idiot but you are missing the point. In the theme case the theme will be useless as in not providing the intended function (in almost all cases) when you remove CSS and images. The combination of html,php, images and css is what constitutes the theme or the work, this work then needs to be combined with WordPress to function. If you remove the images and the css it is no longer the same theme/work. To make an analogy to a compiled program: your argument is analogous to saying that, if a compiled program dynamically links to two libraries – one GPL and the other not – and if that program is dependent upon both libraries to function, then the non-GPL library must inherit the GPL from the GPL library. First the software would not be compatible with the GPL as is so there is no inheritance. Second your analogy is flawed. It would rather be GPL software uses a GPL plugin that uses a non-GPL plugin. » Posted By Andreas Nurbo On May 24, 2009 @ 11:49 AM Themes and plugins cannot be talked of as derivative works in the legal sense I think. Also the only exception to modules not affected by GPL is if they are initated using fork and exec. If WordPress only calls the constructor of a theme/plugin class then that is a grey area. But this is however not the case with either themes or plugins. If the theme is useless without the CSS or images one could easily argue that those files are also affected by the GPL. I would say that you cannot make themes or plugins to wordpress that uses wordpress functions or is dependant upon wordpress to function and not have the theme/plugin become GPL. But in essence if a theme or plugin calls methods in WordPress then those files are affected by the GPL. » Posted By Andreas Nurbo On May 23, 2009 @ 10:32 AMComments Posted By Andreas Nurbo
The SQL threat is really stupid really. In my own projects I don’t use plain SQL anywhere. Don’t understand why it’s so popular with PHP applications. Bad design really.
There ain’t commercial themes in the repository either.
What they have done is page which display sites that sell GPL themes.
There is no sites that sells GPL plugins as far as I know. But I think at least Matt should recognize the possibility of this.
But I think the Alex Kings segment was a little short. It was just 2-3 min info on what he does =). Could have been expanded I think with more on business and GPL given that was how he was introduced.
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Almost no one ever donates unless its for starving people or some other bogus cause.
So going the donations route is just a huge waste of time.
The secret is:
You charge money for your product.
I know its totally absurd in this no charge obsessed time of ours.
DHH of ruby fame made an entire seminar on this topic over at Statup School 08.
It’s really a must watch seminar.
http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/david-heinemeier-hansson-at-startup-school-08
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I liked the WW episode like I twittered. Good job on that. And the stuff Matt was saying was interesting and illuminating. But counting hosting as making money from WordPress just sounds stupid. Matts answers kind of goes hand in hand with the Free Themes directory as its called now.
Anyone that might be interested in codegeneration for wordpress and in that case what should be generated?
Should first clarify I did not intend “become” as in GPL spreads against the authors will rather to be compatible the theme as whole have to be GPL inorder to function with GPL software. Replace become with “be released as”.
If the theme makes use of calls to WordPress functions which are GPL the theme has to be GPL or some other compatible license. That is why I would interpret the images and the css also has to be GPL. As the theme is to considered as a whole and would not be the same theme if you removed the CSS and images. You could also write an exception with the GPL saying it is allowed to use these non-GPL stuff given certain conditions. (See last link)
If I add a module to a GPL-covered program, do I have to use the GPL as the license for my module?
I’d like to modify GPL-covered programs and link them with the portability libraries from Money Guzzler Inc. I cannot distribute the source code for these libraries, so any user who wanted to change these versions would have to obtained those libraries separately. Why doesn’t the GPL permit this?
If a program released under the GPL uses plug-ins, what are the requirements for the licenses of a plug-in?
But this might be even more applicable in some cases
What license should I use for website maintenance system templates?
You have to write an exception in the GPL license but the theme/plugin would still not be proprietary but GPL. The problem is also who should write the exception. The theme/plugin developer or WordPress copyright holders since the theme/plugin is an extension of WordPress and not a separate entity.
What legal issues come up if I use GPL-incompatible libraries with GPL software?
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But the FSF do say that if the module cannot exist apart from program in this case WordPress then the whole is to be considered the program. Combining non-GPL software with GPL is also a somewhat gray area it seems. You cannot however write a wrapper function around GPL and make a bridge to non-GPL. Then the whole will be considered GPL.
That is the whole point of the GPL and why you really should use LGPL for your software.
Which you can see if you look at the following perspective.
If you integrate stuff into the TinyMCE editor that is a whole different area since the TinyMCE has a different license than WordPress (LGPL) you can put a non-GPL licence on the code that TinyMCE interacts with and a GPL licence with a exception on the code that interacts with both WordPress and the TinyMCE.